Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks may soon be writing Dear John letters from jail.

The jittery jilter from Duluth, Ga. – who fled town four days before her planned April wedding to John Mason – was indicted yesterday for telling police she had been kidnapped, sexually abused and driven to Albuquerque, N.M.

She faces up to six years in prison if convicted of making a false statement and filing a false police report.

Wilbanks, 32, also could be fined up to $11,000 and ordered to reimburse the city of Duluth the $43,000 it spent searching for her.

The gown-and-out Georgian is currently in a voluntary in-patient treatment program getting “professional therapy” for what her family pastor described as the “physical and mental issues which, she believes, played a major role in her ‘running from herself.’ ”

She’s expected to surrender to authorities in the next few days, said Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter.

“We believe the grand jury made the right decision,” said Porter, noting, “At some point, you just can’t lie to the police.”

Asked if he will seek high bail when Wilbanks is arraigned, Porter said, “No, the judge will set bond.”

Despite the recent past, he insisted, “I don’t consider her a flight risk. There’s no reason to seek anything out of the ordinary. ”

Porter did not rule out reaching a deal that will let Wilbanks plea to lesser charges.

Wilbanks’ lawyer questioned Porter’s jurisdiction in the case, noting that her false statements were made to police in Albuquerque, and authorities there have no plans to prosecute her.

Wilbanks, a nurse, disappeared from her Duluth home on April 26th – four days before she was due to marry Mason – triggering a nationwide search.

She called her frantic family and 911 before dawn on April 30th, claiming she had been kidnapped while jogging near her home and driven to Albuquerque.

In a detailed, at times graphic, account, she told police her abductors were a Hispanic man and white woman, both of whom forced her to have sex with them.

But after being pressed about inconsistencies in her story, she admitted that she fled Georgia by bus “to escape the pressures of her upcoming wedding” and fabricated the abduction story.

The criminal charges against her aren’t the first. She’s been arrested three times in the past for shoplifting.

Among the reasons friends have given for her dodgy behavior is her fiancé’s insistence on abstinence before marriage.

Wilbanks, in a statement issued through her family pastor, insisted that her vanishing act had “nothing to do with cold feet.”

“I cannot fully explain what happened to me,” she said, adding there were “a host of compelling issues which seemed out of control.”